Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Current Event! scientists find solar system like ours!

I knew there was a solar system like ours! A few days ago astronomers think that they've found evidence of an alien solar system around a star close enough to Earth to be visible to the naked eye. They say that 3 planets are probably orbiting a sun called Epsilon Eridani! It is very "young"
because it is "only" 850 million years old. Our sun is a lot older, almost by 3.8 billion years! The good thing is we can see it with the naked eye. The bad thing is it's 63 million miles away from the Earth. There are many similarities between both of the solar systems. One of them is that Epsilon Eridani is 5 times as young as our sun. Another similarity is that their asteroid belt is 280 million miles away from it's sun, just like ours! There's also a third ring of icy objects extends billions of miles beyond Epsilon Eridani, resembling the so-called Kuiper Belt of mini-planets outside of Pluto! i wouldn't be surprised if there will be life there in a few billion years!
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Green Basilisk Lizard!

The Green Basilisk Lizard, or the Jesus Christ Lizard, live in Central America from Mexico to Panama. These are amazing animals, because they can run on water! Yes it's true! This is the only reptile that can actually run on water! When the mother of these lizards lays her eggs, she goes away. After the eggs hatch, the lizards are born with the ability to run on water and land, climb and swim! These animals are very smart; when they become alert that a predator is after them, they immediately jump for the water, because they know that whatever predator won't follow them into the water if they don't know how to swim. If the predator can swim, the lizard will then start swimming. These lizards are skillful swimmers as well! They can stay underground for 30 minutes! These animals are very interesting, if you want, you can read more about them here!